Event Information

Exhibition - Cyril Lixenberg: An Artist's Journey

"Cave Painting" by Cyril Lixenberg, 1961, oil on canvas

Date and Time:

Monday, September 23, 2013
10:00 AM -
5:00 PM

Location:

Performing Arts Center » 1121 - GVSU Art Gallery

Description:

Cyril Lixenberg: an Artist’s Journey explores and celebrates 81 years of the life and work of the popular contemporary Dutch artist Cyril Lixenberg, whose monumental sculpture and eye-popping, colorful screen prints are exhibited throughout GVSU’s buildings and campuses. The exhibition will feature new gifts of paintings and works on paper including drawings, mono-prints, print editions, small sculptures, and archival material spanning his early career as a struggling and evolving artist from the mid-1950s to the present. Multiple exhibition venues across West Michigan from GRAM to the Muskegon Museum of Art will simultaneously focus on particular aspects of Lixenberg’s art.

This Falls Arts Celebration event will host a reception for the artist on Wednesday, September 11 from 5-7 PM. This exhibit will be open from Friday, August 23 to Friday, November 1. Gallery hours are 10 AM to 5 PM Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 10 AM to 7 PM on Thursdays. Free and open to the public.